Black Appalachia and Rendville, Ohio

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SELECTED RESOURCES

Librarian's Choice

Turner, William H. and Edward J. Cabbell. Blacks in Appalachia. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Doppen, Frans H. Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal: A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

BOOKS

Reference

Abramson, Rudy. Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

Edwards, Grace T. A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 

Thompson, Sherwood. Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Boston: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

Wilson, Charles Reagan. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture [24 volumes]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007-2012. 

Biography & History

Algeo, Matthew. All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2020.

DiBari, Sherry A. Rendville, Ohio, an Historical Geography of a Distinctive Community in Appalachian Ohio, 1880-1900. Athens: Ohio University, 2011.

Billings, Dwight B. and Ann E. Kingsolver. Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. 

Conyers, James L. Carter G. Woodson: A Historical Reader. New York: Garland Pub, 2000.

Crowell, Douglas L. History of the Coal-Mining Industry in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey, 1995. 

Brown, Karida. Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 

Dagbovie, Pero G. Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.: The Father of Black History. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014.

Doppen, Frans H. Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal: A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016. 

Eppard, Lawrence M. and Henry A. Giroux. On Inequality and Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 

Fain III, Cicero M. Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 2019.  

Fisher, Stephen L. Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

Fisher, Stephen L. and Barbara E. Smith. Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.  

Fletcher, Rebecca Adkins. et. al. Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2023.

Fowler, Virginia C. Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013.

Inscoe, John C. Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 

Garrison, Memphis T., Ancella R. Bickley, and Lynda A. Ewen. Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. 

hooks, bell. Belonging: A Culture of Place. New York: Routledge, 2009.

hooks, bell. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. 

Jamison, Phil. Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 

Keefe, Susan E. Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020. 

Maher, Kris. Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia. New York: Scribner, 2021. 

Mehra, Bharat. Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Morris, Burnis R. Carter G. Woodson: History, the Black Press, and Public Relations. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.

Rice, Connie P. and Marie Tedesco. Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. 

Schumann, William R. and Rebecca A. Fletcher. Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. 

Smith, Lydia. Burial Sites. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 2022. 

Trotter, Joe W. African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2022.

Turner, William H. and Edward J. Cabbell. Blacks in Appalachia. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. 

Turner, William H. The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2021.

Wagner, Thomas E., and Philip J. Obermiller. African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Wilkerson, Jessica. To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Art & Culture

Arnett, William and Paul Arnett. Souls Grown Deep: African-American Vernacular Art of the South [2 volumes]. Atlanta: Tinwood, 2000-2001.

Conway, Cecelia. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2012. 

davenport, doris. Madness Like Morning Glories: Poems. Baton Rouge  Louisiana State University Press, 2005. 

Demby, William. Beetlecreek. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Giovanni, Nikki. The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni. New York: Perennial, 2003. 

hooks, bell. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 

Karales, James. Controversy and Hope: The Civil Rights Photographs of James Karales. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.  

Smith, Effie W. The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Spriggs, Bianca L. and Jeremy Paden. Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018.

Walker, Frank X. Affrilachia: Poems. Lexington, KY: Old Cove Press, 2000.

Wilkinson, Crystal. Birds of Opulence. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. 

Work, John W. Folk Songs of the American Negro. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969. 

ARTICLES

Allen, Fayetta A. “Blacks in Appalachia.” The Black Scholar, vol. 5, no. 9, Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1974, pp. 42–51.

Hay, Fred J. “Black Musicians in Appalachia: An Introduction to Affrilachian Music.” Black Music Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1/2, University of Illinois Press, 2003, pp. 1–19.

Hayden, Wilburn. “In Search of Justice: White Privilege in Appalachia.” Journal of Appalachian Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Appalachian Studies Association, Inc., University of Illinois Press, 2002, pp. 120–31.

Kessler, Sidney H. “The Organization of Negroes in the Knights of Labor.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 37, no. 3, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc., 1952, pp. 248–76.

LaRue, Paul. “Digging Coal in Rendville, Ohio: A Lesson in Race and Recession.” Black History Bulletin, vol. 72, no. 2, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2009, pp. 13–17.

LaRue, Paul. “Emancipation Day.” Black History Bulletin, vol. 75, no. 2, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2012, pp. 20–23.

Lewis, Ronald L. “Race and the United Mine Workers’ Union in Tennessee: Selected Letters or William R. Riley, 1892-1895.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Tennessee Historical Society, 1977, pp. 524–36.

Rowe, Jill E. “Mixing It Up: Early African American Settlements in Northwestern Ohio.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 39, no. 6, Sage Publications, Inc., 2009, pp. 924–36.

Smith, Barbara Ellen. “De-Gradations of Whiteness: Appalachia and the Complexities of Race.” Journal of Appalachian Studies, vol. 10, no. 1/2, Appalachian Studies Association, Inc., University of Illinois Press, 2004, pp. 38–57.

Tribe, Deanna L. “Contemporary Images of Appalachian Ohio: The View from Within.” Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, vol. 5, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services/ East Tennessee State University, 1993, pp. 26–33.

Trotter, Joe William. “The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in the US Coal Industry.” International Review of Social History, vol. 60, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 145–64.

Woodson, Carter G. "Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America." Journal of Negro History, vol.1no. 2, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1916, pp. 132-150.

WEB SITES

Black in Appalachia. Whitesburg, TN: Black in Appalachia, 2022. https://www.blackinappalachia.org/

Black in Appalachia | PBS. Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/show/black-appalachia/

Black in Appalachia: Community History Digital Archive. Vienna, VA: Omeka.net; Digital Scholarship, 2022.  https://blackinappalachia.omeka.net/ 

The Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University. Columbus: The Ohio State University. 2022. https://cfs.osu.edu/ 

Decoration Day. Athens, Ohio: The Rendville Historic Preservation Society. 2022.  https://rendvillehistory.org/decoration-day/ 

Featured Essay - African Americans in Appalachia by Althea Webb. The Oxford African American Studies Center, Open Source Edition. Oxford: United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2022. https://oxfordaasc.com/page/featured-essay-african-americans-in-appalachia

Little Cities Archive. New Straitsville, OH: Little Cities of Black Diamonds, 2022. https://littlecitiesarchive.org/

Little Cities of Black Diamonds (LCBD). New Straitsville, OH:  Little Cities of Black Diamonds, 2022. https://www.lcbdohio.org/

Ohio History Central: Online Encyclopedia. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 2022.  https://ohiohistorycentral.org/

Photo Essay - African Americans in Appalachia. The Oxford African American Studies Center, Open Source Edition. Oxford: United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2022. https://oxfordaasc.com/page/photo-essay-african-americans-in-appalachia 

Rendville Cemetery Ohio, Field School Project Spring 2020. Columbus: U.OSU; The Ohio State University, 2022. https://u.osu.edu/rendvillecemetery/

Rendville Historic Preservation Society (RHPS). Rendville, OH: Rendville Historic Preservation Society, 2022. https://rendvillehistory.org/ 

      

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